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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-43506 EUVD-2026-26659GHSA-q553-9xvw-ww8h

An issue was discovered in Prosody before 0.12.6 and 1.0.0 through 13.0.0 before 13.0.5. A Denial of Service can occur via memory exhaustio…

Published May 1, 2026 · Updated May 1, 2026 · Assigned by mitre

Description

An issue was discovered in Prosody before 0.12.6 and 1.0.0 through 13.0.0 before 13.0.5. A Denial of Service can occur via memory exhaustion caused by memory leaks from unauthenticated connections.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Prosody Prosody < 0.12.6, 1.0.0 – < 13.0.5 0.12.6

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 prosody 13.0.5-1 —
Debian 13 prosody 13.0.1-1+deb131u —
Debian 12 prosody 0.12.3-1+deb12u1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 prosody No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS prosody No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 prosody No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS prosody No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS prosody No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS prosody No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS prosody No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS prosody No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 prosody 13.0.5-r0 —
Alpine v3.23 prosody 13.0.5-r0 —
Alpine v3.22 prosody 0.12.6-r0 —
Alpine v3.21 prosody 0.12.6-r0 —

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